The article says Redis is the latest one to pull this shit. Well, today the Linux foundation announced Valkey. If I ran Redis in production I’d go all hands to switch today.
Microsoft released Garnet last week. Which is meant to be a drop in replacement with 10x the performance, written entirely in C# (incredibly accessable vs C++).
MIT licence, like most of the rest of their tools/libs/frameworks.
Nice part here is that they dog food it, since it’s used at scale. So problems tend to get patched quickly by paid devs, while the FOSS community gets to bake in the features they want.
Yup, I’ll be bringing it up with our devOPs team so they can start looking into security implications and whatnot. I might even switch our dev env to that, just to test it out.
Side note, I had no idea slashdot still exists
Companies change licences, sometimes for bad, sometimes for good. Nothing new.
I think it’s usually for the worse, but I don’t have statistics. Do you have some examples of companies switching to a more open license?
Microsoft has been open sourcing quite a lot recently. Does that count?
Sure! I’d like to see a little more diversity than one org though…
Qt (the one used by KDE) has progressed not only through a number of owners (Trolltech, Digia, Nokia, …), but also licenses such as the QPL to be triple-licensed under GPL, LGPL, and commercial for most of its components.
If there were non-company people contributing to it, hopefully an open source version can be maintained.
They probably required contributors to assign copyright as part of their submission process. Lots of popular projects do that nonsense.
